File No. 66/206.

Minister Bryan to the Secretary of State.

No. 62.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that on receipt this morning of the department’s cable instruction of June 16 I called at the foreign office to inquire what decision had been reached concerning the change of date of the International Conference on Maritime Law suggested by me in my note of May 30 last, copy of which I inclose. It was decided while I was there to issue circulars to the Governments interested, naming September 12 as the date for the meeting of the conference, which information I am now cabling to the department.

I have, etc.,

Charles Page Bryan.